Month: June 2015
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Preventing swimmer’s ear and bacteria in pools
As the temperature heats up, a lot of people are cooling off at the pools. Doctors at Greater Mobile Urgent Care say swimmers ear and gastrointestinal illnesses are common during the summer. If you have nausea, vomiting or diarrhea you may have caught a bug. Bacteria can also infect the ear canal and cause swimmer’s…
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Two teens lose limbs in separate shark attacks at North Carolina beach
ABC News’ Matt Gutman reports on the latest attacks to happen at the nation’s beaches.
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Don’t Drink and Dive
In 2014 more people drowned in Sweden than in any other year in the last decade. In fact, in the month of July, Swedish water-related accidents cost more lives than road traffic accidents. Most of the drowning victims were men and the majority had consumed alcohol. Many authorities are working hard to reverse this trend.…
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1 drowned, 1 injured after rescuing distressed swimmer
Norfolk police confirm one man died and another was injured after the two rescued a distressed swimmer at East Beach Friday evening. Emergency dispatchers received a 911 call around 7 p.m. for a distressed swimmer in the water near East Beach Drive and 23rd Bay Street, according to NPD Corporal Melinda Wray. This is in…
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Brittany Elmslie (AUS) pulls out of Kazan 2015 World Champs after breast surgery
London Olympic gold medallist Brittany Elmslie has withdrawn from the Australian swimming team for this year’s FINA World Championships in Russia after undergoing surgery to a remove a benign growth in her breast. Elmslie, who turns 21 on Friday, has pulled out of the team after the operation three weeks ago and the recovery causing…
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Chlorine in the pool doesn’t make your eyes red – it’s the urine
Do you think you know why your eyes turn red after a day of swimming? The answer is grosser than you think and might make you think twice about heading to the pool this summer. For their annual Healthy Swimming Program, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) teamed with Water Quality and the Health Council…
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Ukranian swimmer Olga Beresnyeva fails retrospective London 2012 drugs test
The Ukrainian swimmer Olga Beresnyeva has been stripped of a seventh-place finish at the London 2012 Olympics after failing a retrospective drugs test. The 29-year-old has had her 10km open water marathon event record expunged after an International Olympic Committee (IOC) investigation. The IOC conducted further analysis of samples collected at London 2012 earlier this year, finding…
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America’s Fraught History With Race And Swimming Pools
The video of the incident has been viewed more than 10 million times on YouTube: police officers in McKinney, Texas, breaking up a pool party of mostly black teenagers, one officer pinning a black teenage girl in a bikini to the ground, and then pulling his gun on other teenagers. The incident quickly became part of the…
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Baku 2015 European Games to be streamed live on YouTube
See YouTube on Facebook The first ever European Games begin tomorrow in Azerbaijan. Watch them live on YouTube. https://goo.gl/DeX1yW #Baku2015 Posted by YouTube on Thursday, June 11, 2015